The president said that such unfair treatment of local government administration could only be described as lack of integrity among those governors.
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has slammed some state governors for tampering with local government funds.
Buhari spoke during his speech at an event hosted for members of the Senior Executive Course 44 (2022) of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The president said that such unfair treatment of local government administration could only be described as lack of integrity among those governors.
Citing a personal experience involving an unnamed Governor, the President portrayed the sort of corrupt practices perpetrated by some Governors in dispensing resources meant for local councils’ administrations, The Nation reports.
He said it beat anyone’s imagination how some governors would collect money on behalf of council areas in their states only to remit half to the council chairman, who would further deplete the remittance in further pilfering of public resources.
He related the situation to lack of integrity among many of those holding such offices.
Such actions, he said, are despicable and speak of the height of corruption in the country.
SaharaReporters reports that governors deployed all sorts of tactics - using joint local government account to siphon local government federal allocation.